the president cite yates who launched the phony fbi investigation. sally yates joins me now.me. good to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> i want to ask you about the president in wisconsin night referring to former fbi officials who began this investigation as scum. >> yeah. you knowhe's referred to them as scum. he's accused people of spying and, you know, i think those are words that we really shouldn't be ttowing around abou the men and women in law enforcement and in our intelligence community. >> the mueller report cites 140 contacts according to a tally nn "the york times," at least 140 contacts, including 13 from the president himself with russia during the campaign andr afteds in the transition. does this mean the president is completely exonerate even though because of a lot of other issues not being able to interview the president, not being able to talk to a lot of the otherwitnesses, e-mails that were eliminated, there was no grounds for a osecution. >> well, you know, if you read the entire mueller report, i think it paints a devastating portra a president and

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sally yates is doing the same. we will take up the corruption and hypocrisy of the deep state with judicial watch president tom fenton. and the trump 2020 team is gearing up for another successful presidential campaign and need to flip some blue states to red. trump 2020 campaign manager says the campaign's ground game is far stronger than it was in 2016. >> one of the largest ground games in history. in 2016, we had 700,000 about volunteers. we plan on 1.6 million volunteers for 2020. some people might just hold block parties. some people might engage on social media. some people might be knocking on doors. in every single metric we are looking at being bigger, better and badder than we were in 2016. this time we aren't trying to prove something. the president has proved he has done it. we need to deliver what he's done. david: republican strategist ed rollins, pulitzer prize columnist michael goodwin, and elizabeth harrington and the trump's 2020 campaign's mark lotter are with us tonight. >>> top story, national

officials, perhaps it was yates who committed a crime, perhaps others. but it needs to be investigated and no way in this world that robert mueller was going to investigate anything to do with corruption in the obama administration. here it was, all these leaks most of them. each of them would have been a crime. plenty of evidence there to support. but instead, special counsel robert mueller pursued things and got indictment for things that made clear we didn't need a special counsel to do what bob mueller was doing. you look back, there's nothing he did, nothing he produced that could not have been done without a special counsel's office. in fact, he ended up having to pass some stuff off to the u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york. even as badly compromised as bob mueller was from even being special counsel, he recognized he had gone beyond his limits as broad as they were and needed to pass some of those things off. another article here from significance monday, d.o.j. watchdog investigating f.b.i. informant in the russia probe. talks ab

sally yates said this.states before donald trump's name he should have been indicted and i think the good thing of what they're trying to do on wednesday and thursday in terms of bill barr's testimony, kendis, is we all know that when we have these congressional hearings, there's a lot of five-minute grand standing on both sides and i like the idea of spending 30 minutes asking bill barr really probing questions about not only his alleged summary, supposed to be an accurate rera flexion of the mueller report and what does bill barr as the highest ranking law enforcement officer in the united states, what does he think about that road map? is it a viable one and why is his department of justice not pursuing that even though there is that office of legal counsel memo? the question to be asked immediately is what are you scared of? if you're some wise, you know, experienced lawyer that's been involved in the government for as long as he has what is he so scared of of committee counsel? i think that's exactly t

that is not response to yates is great form.but i hope it is an answer to another question. >> also, everything dies maybe, that is the fact that everything that dies and they come back, tulsa was a city that had gone bust. it is coming back. they sell rivers being cleaned up, they dispel one of the biggest public parks in tulsa. they bough built a bob dylan muf woody guthrie museum, their interpreting the dustbowl, a brand-new arena going on, there is a resurgence coming back in a city like tulsa who was once broad b is a bottom place to go and nothing was going there. from growing up from toledo which also was 20 years ago we even had researchers yet but my friends in toledo are trying. the toledo art museum with the automobile culture in america is trying to get the river, i used to fish for bass which is toxic. if you are not going to have hope that your community can come back then what's left. and so i think we don't want to be poly amateur blind optimism but we also don't want to pray as communities to despair and as you

he may have been criminally exonerated, i'm not sure that sally yates would agree with that. but the russians have not. this is where republicans take to their grave the most shame. >> it goes to legitimacy. there was that episode last week with kirstjen nielsen and the conversations with mick mulvaney how you cannot bring this issue to the president because he sees it as a threat to his legitim y legitimacy. that's where the conversation ends with him. he doesn't want to see his victory tainted in any way. so acknowledging that is to say that. >> exactly. i think -- i agree with that completely because he's not taking seriously this issue of election security and infrastructure that needs to be updated in this country. but it's the same thing we heard from him during the election in which he was very much in favor of abolishing the electoral college because it's a political stunned. >> it's rigged. >> now it's his favorite thing because that's what afforded him the white house. >> in some ways the tragic shooting in southern california and the president's more robust than us

yates is known for something hence we're quite particular on his fourth and fifth finger. or exactly the same length as his fourth finger so there's that unusual structure of his fans which seem certain. to play certain as you switch comforts which is for the most generous with moment to dismantle the hand. are difficult. to bunch with. much. david holt of. the. whole. of the. stable part is putting it all. collectively some good old boys but in the us. with all that we show you fully support them for the slogan school. of business with them one. seriously. told us to go vote in. the new tricks one off lives in new york with his fiance to get three minutes they know each other from when they both studied piano at the cleveland institute of music in ohio and he sees that he has much more concentration if you will so if you will will be his with me. he actually follows both of them have a. psychic coming out certainly. i find to be a video three seats here and a voice so many of the rights of ideas and i feel very comfortable to be in a coastal port of them the environment w

andrea mitchell and former deputy attorney general sally yates.utor for nearly 30 years. i can tell you i've personally prosecuted obstruction cases on far, far less evidence than this. and yes, i believe if he were not the president of the united states, he would likely be indicted on obstruction. >> abigail, is that widespread belief -- keep in mind, sally yates was fired by the administration. >> yes, so i think you'll certainly have legal experts and lawyers who will argue that, you know, the president was acting within his authority as head of the executive branch in certain instances, such as the firing of james comey. getting back to this other bar you have to clear when it comes to obstruction in terms of corrupt intelligent and whether or not mueller proved that, but i think that when you're actually reading through the mueller report, the way in which mueller presented the arguments for or against obstruction of justice really left open the door to the possibility of the president being indicted after he were to leave office. it's specif

so james comey and sally yates signed off on those are verifying to the court what is in there. they're verifying that christopher steele was a credible source. they're verifying that the steele dossier had been co corroborat corroborated. none of that was true. so the folks that signed off on, the court can only know what they're told. they weren't told that christopher steele was out to get donald trump. they weren't told that the steele dossier was paid for by hillary clinton. so the court was at the mercy of the people that verified this information. that's what bill barr will look at. that's what he's promised to look at and what need him to look at. >> congressman, thank you. you prosecuted terrorism cases and one of two people to have actually seen that document. i never heard that, that it was said at the top that it was verified in bold capitol letters that is important for people to know. thank you. also from texas, the texas lieutenant governor dan patrick. says sitting her with us. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> amazing things happening in texas. texas is a

look at sally yates and the flynn transcripts.n regards to fisa abuses look at james baker, the general counsel of the fbi, the doj's 5 the guy before coming to the fbi. there is something there and the other names too, the people that signed the fisa application whether is mccabe, sally yates and rod rosenstein funded the last application. what is his role in this including the 25th amendment. shannon: todd: 1 about the global leak referral devon nunez mentioned? >> this is also position. i don't know who this is. is that john brennan? clapper? i don't know. i think john brennan was more of a puppetmaster than people first thought. >> you have this list, these committal referrals, eight to the doj? what happens next? what could be the outcome for all this? >> this is up to 2 dozen criminal referrals and what can happen, he referred these to ag bar, he will look at these results and i have to tell you i don't think he will dismiss these out of hand, the former head of the house intelligence committee making these referrals. if he

this is going to be an epic struggle and we're going to be interviewing sally yates, the former attorney general who was fired during all of the beginning of the administration. she has a lot to say about the mueller report which is still in a lot of ways, despite the president saying there is no collusion. when you drill down into it, even some republican lawyers, not republican senators, but republican lawyers acknowledge there's lot in here. >> that's going to be an interest sg interview onday. i'm talking about president trump and his relationship with republicans and also his relationship with the media. not great. he's not going to go to the correspondents dinner once again. he's -- there hasn't been a press briefing. they've all but disappeared. have you ever seen the time when the relationship between tt presidnd the media was so strained? >> i was not here during watergate but i've never seen anything like this. calling the press corps the openemy of the , these are the kind of things dictatorsy. sa this -- the first amendment is embedded in our constitution and it's the hall ma

so certainly deputy attorney general yates is correct. the chapter and verse of several obstructions, the ones she named and a couple others are set out clearly and it's clearly what mueller concluded. the more you read it, the more it becomes indisputable. barr's decision now to try to evade testimony is not just his own behavior at the press conference that is at stake, this is now the explanation to the american people of why supposedly the department of justice exculpated trump, said it wasn't a crime. this is the most significant public issue on the whole table right now in the country. and for that to be forestalled by silly school yard fights about rules especially when we're talking about a very well-established precedent of house judiciary using lawyers to ask questions if that's more effective, it's a bad look for the attorney general. >> the whole question about the mueller report and whether or not it's case closed as the president was saying in wisconsin. peter baker, the president has certainly had three weeks head start as

the fisa court about it. >> mike: robert, if you were advising jim comey, sally yates, some of thesether folks we've heard so much about, would you tell them to lawyer up? >> [laughs] >> not to be funny about it but that is an understatement. the core of this, joe is absolutely right. what i want to know is who at the justice department knew about what disclosures were going to be made to the fisa court and who specifically withheld information because they did know about the origins and the derivation of the steele dossier. how come the political connections of the clinton campaign wasn't disclosed at least in a footnote in the fisa application? there were people at the justice department to know about that, i think the point of the investigation, who knew it, when did they know it, and why didn't that information make it in to the fisa application, which was delivered to the court. look, we've all recognize now with the benefit of hindsight, that is kind of a rather important thing to have known. i will say in addition to all of that, one of the things also, apart from prosecutions

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iran has threatened to retail yate. he turns the news conference over to the u.s. special representative for iran and state department counterterrorism coordinator. his is about half an hour. secretary pompeo: i'm here to making an important foreign policy announcement concerning the islamic republic of iran. we i'm announcing to designate he islamic revolutionary corps as a terrorist organization. this designation will take effect one week from today. this is the first time that the united states has designated a part of another government. we are doing it because the regime's use makes it different from any other government. this historic step will provide the leading state sponsor the financial means to spread misery and death around the world. businesses and banks around the world now have a clear duty to ensure that companies with which they conduct the national transactions are not connected to them in any material way. it gives the u.s. government tools to counter iranian-backed terrorism. this designation is a direct response to an outlaw regime and should

wabc's toni yates has the story. >> reporter: we are flies on the wall with these middle schoolkids. isn't there. he's the cold air. >> reporter: see what you don't see? no cel phones, putting their phones away in these locked pouches for the entire school day. has done wonders. >> i got more focused. my grades went up. >> reporter: mr. stans as everyone calls him has worked in the school district for many years, but this is his first year at max middle school. he came with a plan. >> i saw that our suspensions were kind of high in years past. discipline referrals very high. and our test scores were just very low. and so reviewing and looking, i saw such a connection to cellphones. >> reporter: he got the okay from the school board and parents and pushback from his students. >> from me at first, i didn't really like it. >> i would try to open it, and then when i couldn't, i feel -- i just gave up on it, i didn't like it. >> i was just looking at it all day, it was just ringing next to me. >> reporter: three days into it -- >> three days later i was just like, what are we learning tod

manassas, yates ford near davis ford road, that accident isha ing around. beltway at branch avenue, outer loop, outer loop, everything rolling along fine. as you look at the rest of the beltway, no problems. you see the splotches. green. all the rain chuck's been talking about. eun? >> thank you. >>> 4:31. new informationvernight in the investigation into the deadly sri lanka bombings. we were the suspected leader of the militant group that carried out the attacks is dead.ic sri lankan p announced the news overnight. >> it's believed he was killed in one of the blasts on easter side a hotel. that was one of six errlosions caied out that morning. authorities yesterday lowered the death toll to 253 people. earlier this week they had said as many as 359 people had died. >>> developing this morning, prince william county police are searching r a gunman who shot a 17-year-old in dale city. hopper 4 was over the scene as paramedics rushed the team to a waiting medevac helicopter. he word on his condsion. appearhe shooting happened in a parking lot outside of some

the company has pd mised to bu$10 billion manufacturing complex in the yate creating 13,000 jobs, butrly twoears after that pledge, the future is far from certain. scott cohn is at the site in mount pleasant, wisconsin. >> by now a massive state-of-the-art plant was supposed to be rising on this sprawling sight 25 miles south milwaukee. renaissance in u.s. manufacturing. >> it is g aat day for american workers. there is construction here and it's way behind schedule and they haven't started on the main factory which foxconn hasn't started to breakround on by january and the company has it fallen short o hirg targets and only about a thousand jobs t createds far. perhaps most troubling, foxconn has dropped its plan to build massive electronic display panels here. it will build smaller, less labor intensive ones instead with $4.5 billion in state s subsidies on the line, tony ebbersays it'sime to re-evaluate things. >> clearly the deal we struck is no longer in play. >> theeal was a haul mack achieve chlt of scott walker and the republicans who contr the state legislature accused ebbers

in 2000 yates named vollmer to replace him as ceo and his high spirited antics at comp an meetings are developers. >> reporter: as ceo vollmer hped make microsoft one of the leaders in selling software systems to large corporations but acknowledges he was late in steering them into the search and smart phone markets. steve vollmer retoured in 2014, leaving in his own distinctive way. >> you've made it this it the time of my life. ♪ now i've had of i ♪t all to rorr: but figuring out what to do after microsoft was not so easy for vollmer. >> i went mad. i played a hundred rounds of golf. i was manic. and after a year sort of okay. breathe. and that's when i really sat back. >> reporter: for years had been keeping spread sheets to keep track of how he spent every minute from 9:00 to 5:00. >> 366 hours a year on the clupers. >> reporter: but his wife of 29 years thought he should start spending more time on alanth rain. ahmed primarily at creating opportunities for kids in need. and the vollmers rank among the nation's most charitable donors. he said he was being controversial. he said phi

miguel almaguer has yate developments. >> aou scared of going to prison, lori? >> reporte running errands as the new indictment came down today, actress lori loughlin, her fashion designer husband, and 14 other parents are now charged with conspiracy to commit fraud and moneylaundering. accused of paying thbribes to cheat eir children's way into college, the defendants now face up to 40 ye prison. >> i think that both the judge and the government want to send aessage, and that is you may be wealthy you may be famous, you may be powerful, but you're not beyond the long ar of the law. >> reporter: today's indictment does not y affect felic huffman and a dozen other parents who agreed to plead guilty. the oscar nominee admitting monday she paid $15,000 for a proctor to correct her daughter's answers on the s.a.t. guidelines call for n oughman to serve betwur to ten months behind bars. >> these other parents have not come in and plead guilty. they certainly haven't done it early, and so th government has added charges, and i om think at leaste of them will go to pri

sally yates walk over and says we have tapes of michael flynn. this matters. we think you should do with it and they didn't until they were forced with press accounts to do something. there's probably more digging they can do with obstruction if they're methaudic and patient i thunk 23 they get seen as bullying barr to turn over a document prematuraly, it gives barr capitol he probably doesn't need and if they're patient, i think it's go itting to develop in to an interesting story lune. >> he actually wrote a president can't be interrogated on obstruction. there was no chance mueller was going to be able to ask the president any with questions about the obstruction investigation and he refused to do so anyway. donald trump made clear what he wanted in an ag. does he have that? >> i don't know that he has quite roy roan. but someone who as the president's back. who we know that it the president wanted his roy cone. he wanted someone to be loyal to him like perceived eric holder was. jeff sessions, to the president's line, created the ultimate betrayal by choos

probably sally yates, she signed one of the fisa applications, i am awaiting michael horowitz reportt said who broke the law and used power and influence to investigate americans because they done like our politics. >> your gut instinct that is what they did? >> it -- it is beyond my gut instinct. we know it is there, we know this money was originally started from clinton campaign, paid to law firm to create the falfalse dossier, and bruce ohr carried that dossier. a hope horowitz releases all that information. it should never have happened and it should never happen again. trish: a waste of 2 years. >> and 30 million dollars. trish: i couldn't saying, putin got what he wanted. he would have wanted to see our nation divided. he wants to be divided mainstream media and democrats play in to his hands, they continue to can so like schiff. trishschiff. >> mueller report is so definitive, no collusion, no obstruction, clear, and they cannot take the fact that is what bob mueller said, they waits and waited, for president's report to come out, and say that president committed crimes, they

we have the deputy attorney general, sally yates who undertakes an investigation of them under the loganhas come about like the jaywalking act and they use that. we have all this going on, is mr. nadler interested in any of this. >> of course not. is maxine waters interested, is nancy pelosi interested, how about 98% of the media. are they interested in any of this. >> not the least bit. it doesn't fit the narrative and it doesn't hurt the president who one. all these activities that are going on, do you think, apart from the base on either side politically, the american people watching us, those who are paying attention which is not most of us, what you think they make of this. >> basie washington behaving in a way that's ill relevant to their life and spinning their wheels in the mud, and i picked mud intentionally just practicing the politics of personal distraction. they voted and i think the america average american view is get on with it, it being the business of government. we look at what's going on with the border, there's a desperate need for congressional action. they acknowle

sally yates, mccabe, rosenstein and others who will haveanswer questions.d the scenes. these investigations they can't reveal the investigation but you have to hope they get to the bottom of this stuff. >> we know christopher steele leaked to his very good friends in the media that he is concerned about this. inspector general reports are generally very kindly done. they're done by the agency. they sort of defend what the agency is doing. so i think there needs to be more investigation than just the the inspector general report. we don't know how much is out there. we know the agencies used overseas intelligence assets to spy on the campaign. there were wiretaps. there were national security letters. we have a lot more to learn. steve: absolutely. sounds like the president made it clear he would like to declassify the fisa warrants maybe we'll get it sooner than later. >> hope so too. >> molly, thanks. budweiser, teams up with folds of honor for a special cause and a look at the brand new beer and heros it helps. hey, major dan. bill hemmer with preview of

sally yates walk over and says we have tapes of michael flynn. this matters. we think you should do with it and they didn't until they were forced with press accounts to do something. tl there's probably more digging they can do with obstruction if they're methaudic and patient i thunk 23 they get seen as bullying barr to turn over a document prematuraly, it gives barr capitol he probably doesn't need and if they're patient, i think it's go itting to develop in to an interesting story lune. >> he actually wrote a president can't be interrogated on obstruction. there was no chance mueller was going to be able to ask the president any with questions about the obstruction investigation and he refused to do so anyway. donald trump made clear what he wanted in an ag. does he have that? >> i don't know that he has quite roy roan. but someone who as the president's back. who we know that it the president wanted his roy cone. he wanted someone to be loyal to him like he pperceived eric hol was. jeff sessions, to the president's line, created the ultimate betrayal by c

exclusive interviews with 2020 candidate senator amy klobuchar, the republican from wisconsin and sally yates sure to tune in to "meet the press". stay right here. it's 8:00 after this newscast. of course as always, larry will be back 40 minutes from now for our weekly political segment. we will take an even deeper look into joe biden and beto o'rourke who will be here in the bay area today. we look forward to our top with you, larry. see you soon. thanks. >> turning to other news now, you may have seen a lot of kids at work with their parents on take our daughters and sons to workday. the experience is now taking another form in the form of babies. a baby boom could be coming to an office near you, even near california. kristin dahlgren explains. >> reporter: an after day at the office for her. an 11 week-old-daughter allowing many to bring 6-week to 6-month-old babies to the office. >> it makes me very happy having her around. >> reporter: for the health department worker, it made it much easier to get back to work. >> it cuts down on a lot of the stress that parents have. >> reporter: chri

we know there was one on januar, joe biden, sally yates and james comey. they discussed the russian investigation because susan rice tried to cover it up two weeks later. she said we had this meeting but we would all agree we would do everything by the book. wink-wink, how many other meetings where they are the white house? for how long did they go on? i hope that's a more columnist start asking that question. >> sean: amazing. sara carter you been with us from the beginning. we've all had our sources, everyone on the show and so many others i can mention now. we know the avalanche. to the extent you can, explain to everybody what you know is coming? >> we certainly have a number of sources and i don't know who your zara. i know mine are. i can tell you this, there is an avalanche that will be coming within the next two months. it is going to be huge. there are a number of indictments that are on the way and there'll be a very serious investigation into what had happened and what had transpired since the hillary clinton investigation by the fbi all the way

the russian government will be taken into account in the consideration in the yates. >> to the extendhat is this intelligent stuff was not reported on in mueller report was what we got last week. >> it is not over. to the extent this counter intelligence stuff is a live matter of in kwarquery. >> that has not been resolved. it is congress that's trying to resolve it. to the extent that this stuff is going to be pursued through the fbi and through congress, it turns out there is a problem with it. at the very top and i do not mean trump. that story is next. the water. the exercise. the fiber. month after month, and i still have belly pain and recurring constipation. so i asked my doctor what else i could do, and i said yesss to linzess. linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation or chronic constipation. linzess is not a laxative, it works differently. it helps relieve belly pain and lets you have more frequent and complete bowel movements. do not give linzess to children less than 6, and it should not be given to children 6 to less than 18, it may harm them. do not take linzess i

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so the folks at the justice department, like jim comey mccabe and the folks, sally yates and others that verified this, they've got some explaining to do. is this fisa court to blame for this? where they just snickered? >> no. not necessarily. remember what they were seeing when they are asked to grant a warrant to spy on carter page. the first thing they see in big, bold letters are "verified application," all capitals. >> jason: i was shocked, as you were, when i heard it, from one of the two gentlemen on the public instead of the aisle that has read that report, verified. that is what was i didn't want to the fisa court. here now, the former deputy attorney general, and uc berkeley law school professor, john you. thank you so much for joining us in adding your expertise to this. the idea that this application said at the very top according to john radcliffe, "verified," how is that going to play, how are the courts and the department of justice going to be able to justify this when we find out that this dossier was such a fake piece of, you know, garbage? >> jason, as you say, hillary

i might do what sally yates did, or i'll do with chuck rosenburg did and i'll resist and fail up withnity. >> thanks for joining us. that is "all in" for this evening. "the 11th hour with brian williams" starts now. >>> tonight the attorney general of the united states echoes a talking point from the president and those around him, telling congress spying did occur on the trump campaign. it's a loaded word and a weighty charge, and democrats exploded in response. >>> on the mueller front, william barr said he hopes to put the report out next week, while the president describes it as an attempted coup that he defeated. >>> and the "wall street journal" reports trump insiders keith schiller and hope hicks have both spoken to the feds about hush-money payments. the person who broke the story is here as "the 11th hour" gets underway on a wednesday night.

four years of illegal spying by fbi contractors that was approved and authorized by james comey and yatesncarlo, head of the national security division under loretta lynch and under president obama. and to listen to that loon, ben rhodes, today. to say and they knew nothing about this at the white house, when in fact, the text messages between peter strzok and lisa paige say the white house wants to know everything about it and is running this. >> potus it says wants to know everything. >> potus! lou: two separate exchanges between those two when referring to potus and the other saying the white house wants to know . it is stunning. very quickly, we are over time. is it your judgment then that we will see something substantial and that will turn to the issue of actually investigating the corruption in the fbi leadership in the department of justice leadership. >> i think the attorney general has to wait until the ig report comes out. and then he can base his decisions publicly on whatever the ig has said. we are told that there's going to be recommendations for criminal referrals. lou: vi

i want you to listen to salliuatsally yates and what she said. >> i've prosecuted obstruction cases on far less. if we were not the president, he would be indicted. >> she said if he were not president, she feels he would be indicted for obstruction. she's going forward as a prosecutor with less evidence. we are talking about obstructing justice inquiring on whether a foreign adversarial government interfered with an american election. we're talking about the basics of what this country was founded on, at least in writing and we're acting as if this is some civil case. >> this is an extraordinary set of circumstances. i've been going through the mueller report line by line. what she has to say aligns with what i see. it's a harsh contradiction to what mr. barr tried to do and that's characterize the report as an exoneration. not only is it not an exoneration, the mueller report makes it clear that this is not an exoneration. not only has he not been cleared of obstruction of justice, mr. mueller says that the obstruction evidence is being submitted to congress and rather than making a

. >> barbara, i want you to listen to 16 seconds of sally yates and on the other side i'll ask if you agree. >> i've been a prosecutor for nearly 30 years. and i can tell you i've personally prosecuted obstruction cases on far, far less evidence than this. and yes, i believe if he were not the president of the united states, he would likely be indicted on obstruction. >> you're both former feds, do you concur with your former fed? >> the elements of obstruction are an obstructive act, some connection to an official proceeding, and a corrupt intent. there are about ten episodes in that report of obstruction of justice. there's about three episodes in there with substantial evidence for each and every element of the offense. the asking don mcgahn to fire mueller, to lie about that, and asking cory lewandowski to get zwroefgsz narrow the scope of investigation to only future elections. for those three i'm confident if anyone else were charged with that offense or had that evidence, they would be charged with obstruction of justice. >> our thanks to two of our favorites, shannon pettypiec

the very same republicans who excore yated president barack obama for his supposed misuse of executiveower are meekly going along. on that note we are joined by two of the most widely read authors of our age. our nbc news presidential historian michael beschloss, his latest work is called "presidents of war." pulitzer prize-winning author and historian jon meacham is here. his newest work coauthored with tim mcgraw. i guess we can expect a project with yanni next. "songs of america" out on june 11th. full disclosure, i enjoyed a meal with these gentlemen in new york city tonight. welcome. thank you both for coming on. jon, before we veer into country music, i'll start with you. yesterday alone, a purge at the department of homeland security. and orders apparently from the administration to tell folks to go ahead and break laws if they've been -- if they've come up against resistance. as i always ask you, what is happening right now as we watch? >> it's a rolling saturday night massacre at this point. and you have, to me, one of the things that i've heard many people comment on, if you

we'll keep u yated throughout the morning. inner loop, outer loop, no major issues. more on the bad acciden that will cause a lot of problems this morning coming up. eun? >> yeah. going to be quite the commute this morning.ch thank you so >>> still ahead on "news4 today,ki we are wor for your health. head andllody aches are le signs that you are stressed out. what else is stress causing insides of our bodies? a doctor tells usbout a major health risk and what we canda d to reduce it. >>> plus, today on the "ellen" show -- >> let' talk about your love life. right now you're in flux. i read the boit. a great book, very revealing. >> comedianan chelsea handler drops by the "ellen degeneres" show. she talks about her crush and new book. you can see the show at 3:00 today followed by "news4 today" at 4:00. prit's on! get to the rossg shoe event to score the latest styles for the whole family... ...and something for you. oh yeah. that's yes for less. you heard me - 20 to 60 percent off department store prices!at the ross spring shoe event. on now! and you find the same sty

when you see them subpoenaing don mcgahn, for example, you know, mcgahn, sally yates walked over from the justice department we have tapes of michael flynn, we think this matters, and they didn't do anything with it until they were forced because of press accounts of what flynn said and how he lied about it, to do something. there's more digging nadler and his crew can do around obstruction and make hay out of that if they're methodic and patient with this. if they get seen as bullying barr to turn over a document prematurely before barr's been able to vet it, they give barr capital he needs. >> tim makes a good point about barr adugsing for this job. he wrote in that 18-page memo that a president can't be interrogated on obstruction. with him in charge of the justice department there was no chance mueller was ever going to be able to ask the president any questions about the obstruction investigation. he refused to do so anyway. donald trump made clear what he wanted in an a.g., he wanted roy cohn. >> not quite roy cohn, a rather infamous character in new york. but he has someone who

and by the way, why did sally yates and david avonte and rod rosenstein who signed up on the last fisa warrant? why did they sign off on unverifiable. were they trafficking the dirty dossier throughout the federal government. by the way, who leaked it to isikoff, david corn, "the washington post"? did they leak it to impact an election with russian lies, to bludgeon the president-elect? who told harry reid? and let's not forget struck and page and the high-ranking fbi officials who rigged the whole investigation into clinton because she was the favored candidate that should win 100 million to 0. the people voting for trump like me and you, we were just smelly walmart shoppers. so many questions will be answered now that we know that we're spies inside the trump campaign. here's another question. was there any outsourcing of intelligence gathering? and in other words, were there any efforts by high-ranking members of our intel community to bypass american laws and maybe use our british, australia, italian spy friends to surveil the trump campaign. and by the way, who got to step on halp